Hillsborough, Devon

As well as a pleasant coastal area where visitors may roam, it includes the remains of an Iron Age hill fort.

It provides an open access area with footpaths and natural scenery for the enjoyment of visitors and is traversed by the South West Coast Path.

[4] Hillsborough is the site of an Iron Age hill fort atop the cliff on a promontory at approx 115 metres above sea level.

The fort takes the classic shape of a promontory reinforced and cut off landwards by a defensive earthworks.

Research using earth resistance and gradiometer surveys has produced good data, but interpretation is difficult because landscaping of the area was performed in Victorian times.